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Ty's Take Word came through this week that the Sacramento peaks are running clear and cold right now, which means two things in a place like this: somebody's going to have a damn good weekend up in the mountains, and somebody else is probably going to
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Ty's Take Three-vehicle crash near Ozark with a child from Ava injured, a debate tonight between Durnell and Smith, and the usual spring shuffle of seed buying and job postings—nothing earth-shaking on the wire this Wednesday, which is how most of us prefer it. When
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Ty's Take Sean Barnes blew the whistle, and now the town's getting a good long look at itself in the mirror—which is exactly what happens when somebody decides to speak up about how things work around here. The airport's got big plans, the
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Ty's Take The law enforcement stories piling up this week—a former police chief facing complaints in Hurley, a conviction for high-speed flight with a child in the car—remind us that the badge doesn't come with immunity from accountability, and it shouldn't.
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Ty's Take The news out of Washington on the Forest Service budget cuts hits different when you're sitting in a town that exists because of what grows on those mountains—timber, water, recreation, all of it tied to how the feds manage what's up
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Ty's Take The county's move to pump the brakes on data centers while the town wrestles with who sits at the council table tells you something about where Pagosa's head is these days—we're trying to figure out who we want to
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Ty's Take Slow Thursday in the valley, which means somebody's probably out checking irrigation lines or getting ready for the chile harvest while the rest of us are indoors squinting at screens. That's how it goes in June around here—the real news is
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Ty's Take Anybody who's been around the lake long enough knows that summer here moves fast—one minute you're pulling the boat out for Memorial Day, the next you're calling the funeral home because somebody's kid didn't make
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Ty's Take You're seeing it everywhere this time of year—the animal health alerts stacking up on the radio, the fire season warnings, the pushes to get pets spayed before breeding season hits. It's the sound of Luna County getting itself ready, which is
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Ty's Take Most days up here you see the slow work—a weaving class, a roping buckle earned, a bicycle shop doing right by the shelter animals, water rules that keep the trout coming back. That's the real rhythm of the valley, the stuff that holds
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Ty's Take The governor's been out selling Montana coal to Korea while data center companies line up asking the state to referee their power fights, which tells you everything you need to know about where we are right now. Energy's still the backbone out
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Ty's Take Two folks walked away from a plane down in South Fork this week with nothing worse than scrapes—the kind of luck that doesn't come around often enough in small mountain valleys where weather turns on a dime and help is always twenty minutes